Sicko
Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons’ reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for care.
Incredible recount of the true
Good doc. The only problem is that isntead of giving us answeres it raises even more questions. When Michael Moore was asked what does he think motivates the U.S. government, he said “I DON’T KNOW”!
I found it ridiculous that a person, who spend millions on producing his movies, and gets more air-time than any other controvertial documentary (exept that garbage Al Gore produced) yet he still hasn’t got the fainthest idea what really is going on behind the scenes.
I see only one reason for it, and that is that he is working for “THEM”!!!
This should be essential viewing for all Americans. (whoops.. am I guilty of socialist propaganda?) I’d also recommend Googling “Tommy Douglas”, who was mentioned in the movie (Kiefer Sutherland’s grand-pappy by the way).
It’s not too late for change. Hi Rebecca :^)
Why don’t people realize this in America and stand up? America is slowly turning into a finance capitol, instead of a democracy that should take care of there citizens for free.
Thank you, Michael Moore. My wife and I are moving to Canada and for good reason. I hope everyone will watch this, ask their neighbors to watch this, and someday maybe America really will be what it says it is. Meanwhile, I hope all the people in this film stayed well after their Cuba visit.
Well Michael Moore now you did it, now I need to revisit why I did not like you and the French too.
This sure seems like stuff you see in science-fiction movies, just goes to show you ‘truth really is stranger than fiction.’
Damm you Michael!! i spent the last 50 yrs of my life believing in the b.s, now w 1 movie, and 1 HR,you’ve
made me question(and rightly so)the PTB !!
THANK YOU
.. btw- how about an update on the cuban guests???
As a 61 year old, I can’t move to France, although I would recommend people to think about moving while they’re young. We don’t seem to like our fellow citizens. The republicans slamming Clinton’s health care reform back then are saying exactly the same things today. Why do Americans care what another American might be getting? I’m so sick of them griping about other citizens and if I read, “get a job” from just one more of the right-wingers, I’ll scream. Democrats work just as hard and still the American dream is becoming a nightmare. Thank you, Michael.
myself. do you actually ever even listen to yourself? he eviscerates “them” and your brain concludes that he works for “them”? put down the glue bag.
Absolutely eye-opening!! Incredible that we aren’t as advanced in healthcare as so many third world countries. Makes me almost want to move to Cuba. Thank You Michael!!
People usually ask for their problem’s solutions but they don’t make any effort to produce those solutions. They have to participated in their life’s good development. Michael Moore gives us facts to compared where we are? We have to be part of our selves lives and our family’s future now, without waiting for something our governors won’t give us if we don’t ask for it.
Truly inspired!
For years i have been having trouble with my ovaries and doctors told me i was fine w.o any sonogram or any xray and when i went to Dominican Republic on a vacation I tried to go just for a regular checkup and I was told I had follicles that needed to be removed, for now I cant trust this nation’s health attention everytime i fly to my mom’s homeland I get a regular check up there.
Michael, I want to thank you for producing this movie. I am a nursing student at Ulster County Community College, I was asked to watch this as an assignment. I am so very glad I was. This should be a standard assignment in all high school’s in America maybe the children will help our future be brighter because the American’s now will not fight our government because they keep us week and dominated.
So much for the “freedom” all of our military are fighting to defend.
This was a great doc. My other favourites are ‘the inconvenient truth’ though not all of it might be completely true, it was very interesting. Even if global warming is a myth, there isn’t an excuse for pollution. Another good doc is the one about the Afghan girl, you know, the one with the amazing green eyes. What I like about docs is that they don’t always end happily, therefor they are better then movies because they always end with the bad guy’s loosing and the good guys winning, happily ever after, so predictable.
To be honest.. I do ask myself daily what is wrong with the Americans. Why they feel better as others. Why you always talk bad about other countries and how come there are so less people with common sense.
I don’t think many people will wake up after seeing this (the biggest part will say it’s not of their concern and the other part is surely praying)… but I do wonder why this nation finds it normal to (ab)use other countries for their health care. They don’t seem to feel that guilty to let them pay their bills. I also wonder how many are truly grateful after they are cured (or saved).
You can call it socialism.. I prefer to call it humanity! Strange an insurance company called Humana doesn’t know that.
A democracy is no democracy if the government doesn’t listen to the people!
So happy to be a Canadian. I am NEVER moving to America. It’s just ridiculous how it’s managed.
This is a great movie, but did it change anything?! The system is the same, unfortunately. Country which believes that it is the best one can take care of its own citizens. What a shame!
I was diagnosed with epilespy when i was 7 years old, recently i have had doctors tell me i was faking it and lying about my condition. When i moved to new zealand for 2 years i was given treatment and medications absolutly free, with no questions asked other than a old bottle from my medicine. as health care has gotten worse and worse i watched this movie and it opened my eyes to why.
there is alot of sick people out there.. america is thinning them out. and hoping we will die instead of getting treatment. and people still deny this even after seeing the facts with their own eyes..
these people run our country under the guise of caring people
thank you mr. moore for opening my eyes
A fantastic, eye-opener of a documentary. There were times when I couldn’t help but cry, even felt physically nauseous. A healthcare system structured around profit is without a doubt dysfunctional, dangerous and immoral. ‘Socialized’ healthcare (seriously, whatever) works in other countries and i can attest to that, having lived all over the world, including the US, France, and Great Britain and having family all over as well. The American system was by the far the most dysfunctional and exclusionary system I have ever seen in the first world. The truth is, if most people really knew the state of it and the possibilities as shown in other countries, they would rise up and demand it, and I mean rise up. Most people want it, and in other first world countries like England and France they wouldn’t take that kind of sh*t from the government or wealthy as you do in America. You are told to roll over and take it, and be thankful for it, and swallow the rhetoric and propaganda. Most people want it, most people need it, and most people can have it by exercising your revolutionary spirit and demanding it, taking it. This is what birthed democracy around the world, no-one will give it to you. Put down your tea bags, your birth certificate posters and your ravings about death panels and join the rest of the first world. You’re not wrong in wanting this, they are wrong in denying you. I want my American brothers and sisters to have this as I and my loved ones do, and hundreds of millions of others do. They have absolutely no right, no right whatsoever, to continue this way. Demand the same unquestioning access and implementation of this as you demanded free public libraries, the fire service, and other hallmarks of a civilized society–demand this for the most important issue of all: your physical health, wellbeing and very life. Anything less is totally unacceptable. Don’t believe the bullsh*t propaganda that’s fed to you, in the hopes that your ignorance or xenophobia will prevent you from going through with it. It is not backwards to do it this way, it is backwards to do it the way it is currently done in America. As soon as you understand that everyone has a fundamental right to healthcare, and that using the profit motive as the guiding motivator and principle of taking care of your fellow human’s health is disgusting and wrong, you can start having what other countries do have. Good science and compassion is at the root of healthcare, it is also two of the most important components of modern life. Don’t let dysfunctional rhetoric and brainwashing propaganda cloud your reason on this issue. Both intellectually and morally, they can be shown to be dead wrong. Don’t take it. Don’t roll over.